The Basement View

  Woody Johnson gave his fanbase what they needed today. A way out of this nightmare of a season. With the news today that Joe Douglas is out as New York Jets General Manager, there are many critical pressure points hit with this move. The first and most obvious pressure point is that the roaring dumpster fire that is the New York Jets franchise keeps blazing at a record incendiary rate. Only the Jets would have an owner that superseded the General Manager to fire the head coach the GM hired, stepped in on negotiations that were at a stalemate because of the front offices view on the player, and have had a calendar year where he publicly stripped the General Manager of all his power, only to fire the General Manager and blame him for the mess of a season before the season is over. But it’s when you take a half step away from the fire that you see an opportunity to finally correct the incalculable number of wrongs over the past 14 years. Joe Douglas was brought here to end the longe...

  The New York Yankees and their fans will remember the 5 th inning of Game 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers for a long time. Like they remember Luis Gonzalez’s bloop in 2001. Or Josh Beckett and Miguel Cabrera in 2003. Or 2004. And of course, the cheats down in Houston in 2017 and 2019. That’s what happens when you’re supposed to win and don’t. The Yankees were supposed to win Game 5 of the World Series, get on a plane out west, and continue to try to pull off the unthinkable. It didn’t happen. All because of self-inflicted wounds in the 5 th inning. It started with Aaron Judge’s first error of the season on what seemed to be a harmless fly ball to center. It continued with Anthony Volpe making a poor throw to Jazz Chisholm on a ball hit to his right and the only play that Volpe had to make was the one that he made, it’s just that the Yankee shortstop couldn’t complete the play. And the top was blown off of the inning when Gerrit Cole didn’t cover first base on a weak ground ba...